The idea here is one I saw online (www.triplux.com/dayzero) and instantly realized was a good plan for organizing all the thoughts flitting around in my head, which is to make a list of 101 goals for yourself and try to get them all done within 1001 days- which is like 275 days. My challenge will start once I finish making this list.
1- Graduate College
2- Recertify EMT lisence
3-Publish Climbing Zine
4- Publish Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants #2 before the end of college
5- Get a real website for Approaching Apocalypse zine distro
6- Fill my sketch book with drawings (working on it)
7- Get a dog from the pitbull rescue people
8- Become a piercing apprentice/ piercer
9-Run a marathon
10- Run 5 5ks (1/5 [ran it in 25:35, which was slower than I wanted, but not bad considering how cold it was, at least there was no frostbite])
11- Learn to roller skate well
12- Plant a garden
13- Get more tattoos (have gotten 2 more)
14- Get Wilderness EMT certified
15- Draw a tattoo myself that I get line for line
16- Get a non Bank of America bank account
17- Do Food Not Bombs whenever in RIchmond, no slacking (Done 2/2)
18- Drink 64 ounces of water a day minimum
19- Walk all the streets in RIchmond and highlight them on a map once marked (Jim Straub style)
20- Publish a more political zine
21- Finish and Publish book on contemporary radical activism
22- Learn to ride a fixed gear bike
23- Get a fixed gear bike
24- Dumpster more food than I buy
25- Hug at least one person every day (29/1001)
26- Practice drawing enough to get good and start working in a tattoo shop (working on it)
27- Figure out what I want my knuckles to say- More Than, Grit Yall, etc.
28- Stop drinking soda ever at all any
29- Cut corn syrup out of diet
30- Avoid putting sugar in coffee ever
31- Go rockclimbing somewhere outdoors in Virginia
32- Learn to Kayak
33- Get a bike cart
34- Learn to play the washboard
35- Go to clinic defense at least once
36-Go to a city council meeting, just to see whats up
37-Buy vegetables from local farmers during the summer
38-Participate in vegan potluck whenever possible (so far, so good)
39-Go to at least one show a month (1/33)
40-Read The Autobiography of Malcolm X and other books about civil rights and black power movements
41-Be climbing consistantly enough to climb 5.11s
42-Finish sewing on the patches I’ve been meaning to sew on
43-Not ever buy any pepsi. coke, or Phillip Morris products
44-Spend more money at thrift stores than non-thrift stores
45-Have a healthy relationship that lasts longer than 2 months
46- Lift weights at least once a week
47-Go running at least twice a week
48-Do 50 situps before bed every night
49-Do 10 pushups before bed every night
50-Don’t ever go back to deoderant or shaving
51-Stay vegan
52-Stay edge
53-Read one book/zine for pleasure every week (4/143)
54-Ride in 2 Critical Mass rides a year (0/6)
55-Listen to one CD I love a day
56- Take at least 5 Juijitsu classes (0/5)
57- Get Virginia EMT certified
58-At least look into taking a Paramedic course
59-Go on at least 1 multi-night camping trip
60-Look into taking a NOLS, Tom Brown, or Ruckus outdoor course
61-Go out of my way to be nice at least once a week(4/143)
62-Write a letter a week to someone (4/143)
63-work on communication skills
64-Find a place I like to volunteer at and volunteer at least once a month (ie- SPCA) (1/33)
65-Create posters/stencils that reflect my political beliefs and spread them around
66-Research squatting in Virginia, consider squatting some buildings in RIchmond
67-Help organize/work in a community garden
68-Ride the Virginia ‘diamond’ on coal cars
69-travel by freight train on a good length trip
70- travel by hitch hiking for a large distance
71- Never get married (unless very very financially helpful)
72-Never own a car, use bike and public transportation
73-Find a way to work on SPanish skills
74-Learn how to screen print and actually build one and do it
75-Make some sweet stencils and patches
76-Make buttons with button maker
77-Wake up early and exercise or stretch or read at least 5 days a week
78-Cut down on TV/Movie watching
79- Play a board or card game at least once a month with friends(1/33)
80-Go skinny dippin in the James
81- Ride my bike naked
82-Get a job cooking somewhere
83-Do a complete overhaul of belongings and donate / recycle everything that is no longer relevant/needed (after graduation)
84-Travel to the west coast to visit friends and see what it is like
85-Go to a tattoo convention
86-Go to a zine convention
87-Organize at least 10 sports games with friends- tag/soccer/hide and seek etc. (0/10)
88-Learn more hula hoop tricks- fire hooping
89- Organize an infoshop
90-Organize a social center
91-Never eat out more than once a week, and if you do, then can’t eat out the next week (0/143)
92-Attempt meditation or yoga
93-learn to drive stickshift well
94-Keep a budget, write it down so I know what I’m making and what I’m spending
95-Complete at least 20 sewing projects (2/20)
96-Adopt a cat from the pound
97-Visit the Edgar Allan Poe museum in Richmond
98-Read all of the books I own, listen to all the cds I own, watch all the DVDs I own
99-Go on 5 hikes (0/5)
100-Actually save some money in savings account
101-Start a club ofsome sort in Richmond
anarchymo said,
October 31, 2007 @ 5:54 am
So I’m starting this challenge Nov. 1, 2007, which means, 1,001 days later, on Thursday, July 29, 2010 I have to be done. Weeee!
anarchymo said,
November 29, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
29 days into this, and I’m making decent progress. I do need to up the ante in terms of some of the habit- goals, like the 50 situps, 10 pushups, waking up early to exercise etc. Time to get hardcore. I’m running a 5k this weekend though!
Charlie said,
November 30, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
Incredibly weird (to me) that you are into tattooing and other forms of decorative mutilation, but you don’t like shaving or carnivory.
Tattooing and piercing are a huge endorphin rush, the experience is much more like taking drugs than any other artistic endeavor I’ve ever participated in. I’ve met several tat’n'pierce fanatics who are hooked on that rush, like long distance runners who hunger for “the wall”.
Myself, I’m an adrenaline junkie, but I can appreciate a good endorphin rush too. MUCH stronger and better than externally generated drugs, better than freebase even.
Do you consciously satisfy the normal human desire to be a predator with your piercing activities? Do you think you lack such desires, and the piercing thing is more about the rush? Seriously, not trying to start a fight.
anarchymo said,
November 30, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
I understand why you think it is weird to be into tattooing and piercing but not
shaving or carnivory, but I think that you are over looking issues of oppression
and other moral issues. Because I think that just the chemical reaction that one’s
body has to any activity in no way justifies that activity. Just like how I might get
a sweet rush kicking someone, it doesn’t mean that is a lifestyle I ought to embrace.
Shaving, particularly for women, is something that we are encouraged to do by
the patriarchy and by capitalism. We are supposed to by a lot of products in order
to shave our legs so men will find us attractive. Even I, radical as I might hope to
be, find myself wanting to shave my legs because of the images that tv and other
media thrust at me. Shaving becomes, for women within the oppressive capitalist
society a capitualtion to the demands of the oppressor. or that is one interpretation.
I think killing other sentient living beings for one’s own pleasure (whether it be to
eat, to wear, to entertain) is immoral and wrong. That is why I am against carnivory.
It is plain ol’ wrong.
I’m not sure that there is a normal human desire to be a predator. And I would also
argue that if there is, then the way that most 1st world people live and eat doesn’t
satisfy that desire either. Buying the corpse of some poor animal at the grocery
store is not very predatory.
Tattooing and piercing are things which I choose to do, which I do not feel are
pressed upon me by any oppressive factor in society. I do not think my participation
in them is immoral or particularly harmful. Whereas drugs are harmful, physically
and mentally.
I think that whenever we feel ‘addicted’ to something or some feeling we ought
to seriously question that and reconsider our relationship to that activity. Whethe
it be running or drugs or tattoos, you have to monitor your relationship to the
activity. Do things for the right reasons.